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| I bought a P225 awhile back and the frame and slide s/n matched but barrel was different. All I could think of was maybe the owner had two and put the wrong barrel in. |
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| It's not unheard of for police departments to do this as well. For instance, if the armorer was replacing the sights on a pistol and gacked up the dovetail, he might grab a slide off another from the armory that was red tagged for a frame issue and send the officer out to qualify with it - fully intending to put everything back together someday, Only someday never comes. I have a S&W 6906 that's an early model with the square trigger guard, but is sporting a later model 6906 slide with the larger sights. You can tell that the slide isn't original, because the machining doesn't quite line up. However, that's how it was issued to me and I bought it when we transitioned to Sig 229r's years later.
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| Posts: 3167 | Location: Exit 7 NJ | Registered: March 21, 2005 |
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| quote: The pistol came in a blue plastic sigarms box,the label on box says "used".Slide ser#U379792 frame#U550257
Does the Part Number label start with " UD"? If so, it's a factory refurbished CPO. Not at all unusual.
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| ^^^ For sure that's a CPO. "UD" is SIG factory code for CPO. Typically, CPOs come in the red plastic box, but it can be any other boxes. In your case, it's the blue plastic one.
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| We had a 'UD' marked P229 transferred in through our shop a couple of weeks back. Also in a blue box similar to what SIG used for civilian commercial guns a decade or so ago. Definitely a used gun that had been cleaned up, presumably by SIG.
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| Posts: 2278 | Location: The commie, rainy side of WA | Registered: April 19, 2020 |
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| things happen at gunshops too, had an instance in one shop I know of where the tactical teds behind the counter had a handful of pistols apart and got the slides and frames mixed up, and sold a couple that were mixed, the idjits did not seem to realize the big parts were numbered, and matched, when they took them apart
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| Posts: 10669 | Location: Beach VA,not VA Beach | Registered: July 17, 2007 |
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| My CPO 228 is a FrankenSIG too. Slide is marked KA -(1990), but the frame SN range is from '97/'98. Rollmarks are different and the slide has when can best be described as a parkerized finished. Old pic... |
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| The CPO 226 I bought 15 years ago is a mismatch. Came in a blue box, gun works just fine.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt"
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris
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| I seem to recall that when SIG initially started the CPO program, it was mentioned that the red box CPO pistols were supposedly the better pistols compared to those that came in the blue boxes. This may simply have referred to the overall cosmetic condition which may have included matching numbers vs non matching. My red boxed CPOs purchased back then all have matching numbers (frame, slide, barrel).
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| Posts: 2463 | Location: Wylie, Texas | Registered: November 12, 2005 |
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| I used to be a SIG and Glock LE armorer and I want to say in the SIG course you took all the instruction guns apart and put everything into piles and you took random parts to make your class gun. They may have had us keep, frame, and slide together, but there were always a share of idiots in the class who screwed things up. And I'm sure different instructors, armorers, and users mix things up before the guns were excessed. I'm aware of one guy who broke his slide and replaced it hoping no one would notice.
In the Glock course we used our own guns, and if they found any problems they just gave you new parts. Also the Glock course they fed us and the SIG course they didn't. |
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